Posts tagged with ‘Budget 2016’

Edmonton Sun Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sticking by his government’s decision not to grant extended employment insurance benefits to the Edmonton region and says he’s confident the economy will improve. Trudeau is in Alberta this week to promote his Liberal government’s first budget, released last week. It includes extended EI benefits for people in […]

National Post Behold: a budget from the 1970s, to meet the problems of the 1980s. That the Trudeau government was eager to spend a great deal we may take as a given. It is a government made up of people with an abiding faith in the centrality of government to the national economy and of […]

Federal budget 2016 consigns Canada to $118.6 billion deficits into next decade The Liberals call it “important investments in the future of Canada.” Their opponents claim it is reckless social spending the country can ill-afford. What is beyond dispute is that the election promise of modest deficits is in tatters, as the government revealed it […]